Travel in Japan is about to get easier thanks to the launch of the Welcome Suica app, scheduled to debut March 6. Developed by JR East, also known as the East Japan Railway Company, iOS users will be ...

The launch of the Welcome Suica mobile app on March 6, 2025, promises to simplify travel in Japan with digital payments, discounts, and more.

The EU will pledge funds to help with reconstruction in Syria at a donors conference it’s hosting next week, the bloc’s ...

€5.8 billion ($6.3 billion) was pledged in aid to Syria at the 9th annual donor conference held Monday in Brussels. “I have the honor to announce that together, we have pledged a total of €5.8 billion ...

Sales of non-personalized Suica and Pasmo IC cards, which are used to pay for train fares and other payments in Japan, will resume in March. New issuance of Suica and Pasmo cards was suspended in ...

Currently, passengers must press their Suica cards at automatic ticket gates to enter and exit stations. Yoichi Kise, the president of JR East, said at a news conference that day that the company ...

The launch of the Suica Mobile app for iOS is a game-changer for Singaporeans travelling to Japan. It eliminates the need for ...

And one key railway in Japan has so far shown no interest in joining the system. Prepaid IC cards, such as Suica and Pasmo, are widely used at stations. But the new credit-card gates allow ...

Commuters in the Tokyo, Sendai and Niigata regions typically rely on two kinds of IC cards: Suica cards sold by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), and Pasmo cards from other railway and bus ...